Example sentences of "it down [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you 'd put it down to had management tactics , ’ sneered Ray . |
| 2 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 3 | But most of all I put it down to having lots of plants , ( plastic or real ) for cover . |
| 4 | And I put it down to having a fairly bad circulation and I 'm get getting my circulation back , using a product called and going on this er hair programme and my hair is beginning |
| 5 | I put it down to giving up work . ’ |
| 6 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |
| 7 | that 'll be a point , taking it down without breaking a brick . |
| 8 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 9 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 10 | I 'd worked it down by moving my jaw as much as possible . |
| 11 | When you have finally discovered the correct route write it down by giving the letters of the roads in the order you have used them . |
| 12 | The girl took it down in speedwriting , not proper shorthand . |
| 13 | Except that Ray and I held back , watching the rain wet the while ash , carry it down in trickling grey rills . |